20. PALM. [ CALAMUS. 
Fl. 549; Ind. Trees 655; Gamble Man. 728; Prain Beng. Pl. 
1094; Bot. Mag. 4584 ; W. oblongifolia, Griff. Vern. Kdla aunsa. 
The genus Wallichia of Roxburgh consists of 3 species, one of 
which (W. densiflora) was found many years ago by the late Sir D. 
Brandis in the subtrop. forests of the Gonda district, N. Oudh— 
a locality which is strictly within the area of this flora. It occurs 
also on the borders of Nepal where it was collected by myself. 
It was met with also by T. Thomson, and by Strachey and Winter- 
botham in Kumaon in similar forests up to 6,000 ft., and it extends 
eastwards to Assam and Chittagong. (See Prain in Beng. PI. 
1094.) The following description of Wallichia densiflora, Mart. 
has been taken from the Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 419.—Stems very short 
or none, or occasionally up to 15 ft. (fide Kurz lec.); trunk 
sheathed; sheaths villous, resolving into strong fibres. Leaves 
8-10 ft. long; leaflets 1-2 ft., alternate; the lower ones 2-4-nate, 
l-costate and with many parallel bright green nerves; sheaths, 
scurfy. Spathes purple. Spadices 12-18 in. long; branches of the 
female ones very stout, flowers in many spiral series; male 
flowers yellow, solitary, or the lower in pairs with an intermediate 
female. J ilaments adnate to the petals. / emale flowers purplish. 
Calyx very short; corolla-lobes obtuse. Fruit about } in. long, 
dull purple. 
2. Nannorhops Ritchieana, W. Wendl.; Brandis Ind. Trees, 
719; F. B. I. vi, 429; Aitch..in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix, t. 26. 
Chamerops Ritchieana, Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 342 ; 
Palms Brit. Ind. 155; Brand. For. Fl. 547 ; Gamble Man. 733 ; 
Gard. Chron. (1886) 652, fig. 128, 129.—Vern. Patha.—A gregari- 
ous tufted low growing glabrous palm with prostrate branching 
robust rhizomes or stems. Leaves cuneately flabellate, rigid, 
plicate, split into curved 2-fid. segments; petiole short. Spadiz 
interfoliar, much-branched. Spathes tubular, sheathing. Flowers 
polygamous. Calyx tubular membranous, unequally 3-lobed. 
Corolla 3-partite, segments valvate. Stamens in hermaphrodite 
flowers 6, in the males about 9. Ovary trigonous; style basilar. 
Seed free, erect, ventrally hollowed. This tree is found wild in 
Sindh and in the W. Punjab including the Salt Range. It is 
abundant also in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, and is much used 
by the Pathan people for making into mats and fans, also into 
